2015年3月26日木曜日

I'm on a juice cleans now.
Juice cleansing is a kind of a diet to flush toxins from the body by drinking nothing but juice .
This time I planed a 3-day cleanse .Today is the 2nd day.

You might think people feel very hungry during the cleans.
But I don't feel hungry at all .Actually I always feel much better during cleansing.
I've been mainly vegetarian for more than 10 years and I am used to this kind of practice ,for example , eating raw food , fasting etc...
But when I looked back at the my very first fasting , I felt very hungry .
But after the fasting , I felt much more energetic and reguvenated .After that, cleansing became a regular routine for me.

I have fasted 3 or 4 times a year for the last 4 years. The last time was about 6 months ago.
I had to take a break from a healthy diet to experience the delicious food on my recent trips to Tokyo and Paris.

But I noticed that my sinus allergies became worse because of the food I ate ( even though it was fantastic ).

Now I'm in my second day of cleansing and my allergies are getting better.
My 5 senses always work really well during and after cleansing.
Another important reason why I cleanse is to quite my busy mind.
Body detoxifying is also mind detoxifying .

Sometime my mind is full of thoughts ( and most of them are not so important !) and it's restless .
Based on my personal experience, eating a lot of food too often can make one's mind restless.
less food means more calm the mind.
I think cleansing the body is one of the best ways to find peace of mind .
For me , it works better than yoga and meditation.

Now I find my mind more peaceful and my performance improves at work.
I feel light both physically and mentally and I'm fresh !

Juice for cleansing should be cold pressed juice to avoid enzyme loss .

2015年3月20日金曜日

I always visit herboristerie ,which means herb shop in English , whenever I visit France.
I visited a few herb shops when I went there in Feburuary and I got a lot of herbs for both my work and personal use.

This time , I stayed Saint-Germaine area for a week.
I found an old herboristerie near the hotel I stayed and I visited there a few times.
The shop appearance was very quaint and it instantly attracted me .
Although I'm always excited when I visit herb shops in France, shopping at this shop was really exciting experiences for me .
It seems that the shop hasn't changed anything since it started.
It was shabby in a good way and not so commercialized .
It's not like a shop , more like a pharmacy .
Once I stepped into the shop , I was overwhelmed by a large number of herbs on the shelves .

I managed to communicate with the herbalist and buy herbs even though we didn't understand well eachother.I don't speak French and she doesn't speak English .

Unfortunately I got bad flue in Paris and I bought some remedies to cure and took them 3-4 times a day and It worked very well!!